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Daily Mirror
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Antony Thrower & James McNeill

Idyllic village has homes for just £170k - but you need permission to paint front door

Would-be house buyers can buy a home for £170,000 in a tree-lined village - but they would have to agree to a number of strict rules before completing the deal.

Peaceful Merseyside village Port Sunlight was founded in 1888 by industrialist William Hesketh Lever who was later known as Lord Leverhulme.

As part of a business model he termed “prosperity-sharing”, he provided his Sunlight Soap factory workers with decent and affordable houses, amenities and welfare provisions.

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